I fear after this post, Vita Mix will enter my home and revoke my high-speed blender privileges. Since I am juice feasting, I was eager to try this recipe. Most of the food I will be making over the next few months I won’t taste, so the few beverage recipes that are juice, I of course, want to drink. This is not the case with this beverage. It is not a juice, it’s a smoothie…kind of.

The recipe is straightforward, using minimal ingredients. A few broccoli flowerets, half of celery stalk, a bit of kale, carrot and smidgen of apple. Preparation is a no-brainer. Drop all the components into the blender with ice and cold water, blend and viola, yuk.I believe that was the word my husband used to describe this drink. He said it tasted of thick broccoli swamp water. That’s a consequence I was heading out to see “The Princess and the Frog” with our youngest daughter. That too, is set in the Bayou.

Maintaining my persistent mind-set and not wanting the recipe (or my first real posting back) to be a complete failure, I strained the brew through a nut bag, creating a green liquid.